Larry LaRocco

Larry LaRocco (25 August 1946-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D) from Idaho's 1st district from 3 January 1991 to 3 January 1995, succeeding Larry Craig and preceding Helen Chenoweth-Hage.

Biography
Larry LaRocco was born in Los Angeles, California on 25 August 1946, and he served in the US Army from 1969 to 1972. During his military service in West Germany, he served as a military intelligence officer in Heidelberg, and a Red Army Faction car bomb killed three of his fellow soldiers outside of the Campbell Barracks on 24 May 1972; LaRocco was honoraby discharged on 10 June. During the mid-1970s, he became an aide to various Democratic Party politicians in Idaho while working as a garbage man, an apple picker, a waiter, a nursing home employee, a logger, a fish feeder, and a cheese processor. In 1990, he was elected to the US House of Representatives from Idaho's 1st district, and he supported increased taxes to balance the budget; the Republican Party used this against him to defeat him for re-election in 1994. In 2006, he lost the lieutenant-gubernatorial election, and he was defeated by Jim Risch in the 2008 US Senate election.